Upcoming Films

One of 2017’s most enchanting and moving films finds 88-year-old French New Wave veteran Agnès Varda traveling across rural France with 33-year-old French photographer and muralist JR. While musing about art, life, and impermanence, the two interview and photograph people from various walks of life, and fashion the images into large public art installations.

One of 2017’s most enchanting and moving films finds 88-year-old French New Wave veteran Agnès Varda traveling across rural France with 33-year-old French photographer and muralist JR. While musing about art, life, and impermanence, the two interview and photograph people from various walks of life, and fashion the images into large public art installations.

This new documentary shows how three activists—Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—went from establishing a modest medical clinic in rural Haiti during the 1980s to creating a global network of healthcare for poor people in the developing world. “Downright inspiring. . . . Proves, in moving detail, the difference dedicated professionals can make in seemingly hopeless situations” —Variety.

This beloved romance from the team that later directed The Red Shoes charts the unexpected adventures of a headstrong young British woman traveling by boat to her older, wealthy fiancé in the Scottish Hebrides. “A masterpiece” —Martin Scorsese.

Georgetown University ethnomusicologist Ben Harbert traveled to three different Louisiana prisons to profile inmates who are also accomplished musicians for this revealing documentary that mixes interviews and performance footage. Harbert answers audience questions after the screening. Cleveland premiere.

This new biopic that opened last year’s Berlin Film Festival dramatizes how legendary “hot jazz” Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt evaded the Nazis in WWII Paris. “A handsomely made affair with one of the best scores imaginable” —Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere.